Posts in category Breeding Reports

Nothing much to say about this good and detailed breeding report. You can use it as a reference for breeding other Dorcus species as well. Interestingly, there seem to be two types of Dorcus alcides, a short mandible one with a massive body and a slimmer type with elongated mandibles. Introduction These pages present the […]

Mesotopus tarandus is a beautiful African species. There are two known species Mesotopus tarandus and Mesotopus regius. But it depends whom you are talking to, as some consider M. regius as a subspecies of M. tarandus with elongated mandibles. These are shiny black beetles that can vibrate (like a cell phone in silent mode) and […]

I know, I know, I do not stick to my promises and I haven’t published something new recently. However, this time I have an excellent excuse: Together with Daniel Ambuehl, a mushroom expert and artist, we have been working really hard on our new project: A new Society called ‘Verein Hirschkäfer’ (Stag Beetle Association). […]

Luckily, beetles are not so easily infected with diseases, and it is a rather rare event that a breeder witnesses a disease that kills all his animals. However, there are a few diseases and parasites that do infest beetle larvae. The below is an old article of mine, where I found some of my larvae […]

This report is based on my experiences according Chalcosoma caucasus in my own breed. I made some mistakes that would have been easy to avoid and that made breeding this species more difficult than it is… I am going to refer to it later on. To begin: I started breeding Chalcosoma caucasus on 12.06.99. My […]

This is a breeding report for a species that was formerly known as difficult or impossible to breed. I found that if some measurements are taken, successful breeding and keeping of this species is not too difficult. First, I would like to thank Jack Lee (Taiwan), who made it possible for me to get some […]

Dilochrosis atripennis is a medium-sized flower beetle from Australia. Its size in breeding is around 4 cm. It is considered an easy to breed species. However there are a few points which make this species stand out from the standard breeding process, for instance of Eudicella gralli. I suspect that the original stock of Dilochrosis […]

Stephanocrates dohertyi were considered an impossible to breed species. I remember seeing single larvae offered for more than 100 DM at around 2000. I think no one ever succeeded in breeding these, and I doubt that anyone ever made it past F1. There were theories that the larvae need a special diet, but in the […]

It is surprising how little is known about the rearing of Rutelinidae. The most likely Rutelinidae people might have reared, is probably an Asian Anomala species. The American continent has quite a few beautiful species that are more than worthy our attention. Today, I would like to describe my experiences with the North American species Chrysina […]

This article has been migrated from my old pages, and I will update it, once the migration is over. Luckily there have been a few advances in breeding of Dynastes, even so the basic principles remain the same. I guess there are already many breeding reports for this species, so one might ask, why another […]